Crisis of the Real Book

	Illustrations
	Acknowledgments
	Foreword to the Second Edition
	Introduction
I	The Crisis of the Real
II	Re: Mastering Modernism
	Alfred Stieglitz and the Contradictions of Modernism	20
	Edward Weston's Late Landscapes	24
	Ansel Adams: The Politics of Natural Space	31
	Minor White: The Fall from Grace of a Spiritual Guru	37
	The Radical Failure of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy	42
	Robert Frank's Existential Refrain	46
III	In Search of America
	The Machine and the Garden: Photography, Technology, and the End of Innocent Space	50
	Walker Evans, Connoisseur of the Commonplace	66
	Helen Levitt's Realist Theater	71
	The Final "Facts" of Garry Winogrand	75
	Lee Friedlander's Portraits	79
	Robert Adams's Pathetic Frontier	83
	Joel Sternfeld: The Itinerant Vision	87
	Richard Avedon's Portraits: Inverted Fashion, Fashionable Mud	92
	Nan Goldin's Grim "Ballad"	95
IV	A New Kind of Art: Camera Culture in the 1980s
	Introduction	100
	Photographic Culture in a Drawn World	101
	Andy Warhol: Presentation Without Representation	106
	Chuck Close's Hyperbolic Verisimilitude	110
	Lucas Samaras's Photographs: Sliced, Stabbed, and Cubed Polaroids	114
	Cindy Sherman: A Playful and Political Postmodernist	118
	Cindy Sherman, Continued: Grimm, but Still Playful	122
	Laurie Simmons: Water Buoyed	125
	Barbara Kruger: Photomontage with Difference	128
	Richard Prince, Rephotographer	132
	Robert Cumming, Conflationist	136
	Jan Groover: Consciousness as Content	140
	The Photograph as Art Object	144
	Robert Mapplethorpe: The Subject Is Style	148
	Now Starring The Starn Twins	153
	The Representation of Abstraction/The Abstraction of Representation	158
V	Documentary Dilemmas
	Introduction	166
	What Kind of Art Is It? Connoisseurs Versus Contextualists	167
	Decoding National Geographic	172
	Oliver North, Fawn Hall, and the View of Life from Life	176
	The Foreign and the Fabulous	180
	The "New Photojournalism" and the Old	184
	Magnum's Postwar Paradox	191
	Subject and Style: Prospects for a New Documentary	196
	Portraits, Real and Recycled	200
	Nicholas Nixon's People, With AIDS	205
	Displaced Sympathies: A Reading of Bill Burke's Portraits	210
VI	Photography at the End of the Millennium
	Photography in Its 150th Year	216
	Photography in the Age of Electronic Simulation	222
	Looking at Television	231
	Photographic Memory and the News in "Real Time"	236
	Art Under Attack: Who Dares Say That It's No Good?	241
	Points of Entry: Tracing Cultures	245
	Photography's Dark Side: The Work of Sophie Calle	250
	Sweet Illusion: Vik Muniz's Sigmund	254
	J. John Priola: The Photograph as Index	259
	Photography Beside Itself	263
	Notes	274
	Text Credits	279
	Picture Credits	280
	Bibliography	281
	Index	283